An approved transaction through PayPal using bank card with insufficient funds, am I good?
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Hello @Poyosword15,
Welcome to the PayPal Community! Sorry to hear you ran into some road-blocks with a recent payment. If the payment is denied by the card, normally the transaction will be declined on PayPal's end as well. If the transaction did go through, it's possible it was charged by another funding source you had on file. As long as that funding source has sufficient funds when PayPal tries to capture the payment, there shouldn't be an issue with the transaction.
However if it does fail when trying to capture funds from a bank funded Instant Transfer, PayPal may try a second time to capture it from your bank or backup funding source before taking your PayPal balance negative. In that case, you can add funds to your PayPal account to resolve the negative balance.
Hope that clears things up,
- Jon K
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